womb
Plural: wombs
Noun
- The uterus, where offspring are conceived and gestate.
- a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus
- In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
- The abdomen or stomach.
- The stomach of a person or creature.
- A place where something is made or formed.
- Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
Verb
- To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
Examples
- He carefully placed WOMB on the board, creating a small but effective word.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded non-native Middle English mater, matere (“womb”) and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
Scrabble Score: 11
womb: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwomb: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
womb: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary